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Tell me about it, It gets used so much on this site that I actually despise the word.
It is quite a lazy word to use, I would say.
When it comes to embracing the Bond sound and bringing something unique to the mix, the best IMO was Bill Conti’s FYEO score. “Runaway” is one of those tracks that brings a big smile to my face when I put it on. It hits that sweet spot of sounding like Bond without sounding like Barry.
But I can also highly enjoy a more experimental score like Eric Serra’s “GoldenEye Overture” track which I wouldn’t trade for a John Barry scored GE soundtrack because Serra only enriched the Bond score lexicon.
Whatever Romer is aiming for, I hope he’s as successful as Conti and Serra when it comes to doing his own thing to enrich Bond.
It just makes me sad Barry is not with us anymore.
Thanks FrankXavior. Bond music is one of my biggest passions so talking about it gets me all fired up. ;)
Sonic Wallpaper would actually be a killer album title ;)
But yeah, can't help but agree with that. Arnold came up with brilliant melodies. I hope Romer can do the same, in his own style, of course.
Serra was bizarre and awful.
I find Arnold's music a tad OTT sometimes but he's better than the other 2 for Bond at least.
I really like that track and the Jellyfish & Elevator Jump cues. I think those are a bit ambient but still suitable for action and tension. I don’t find Newman’s tracks in the last third of Spectre memorable though.
But critically I feel like it's right to move forward with someone else. I also have an original digipak of Goldeneye with a gold disc and love it still- despite it being fairly bonkers.
Had Romer done anything as cool as this, I would be feeling confident he is the right man for the job.
Arnold knocks it out of the park in this example, and shows why he is the only person for this job, the same way Barry was before him.
Oh, and one more thing. This short clip pisses all over anything done by Newman in his 2 Bond efforts.
Absolutely. I'm saying it with a straight face. I'm also saying I despise and hate the GE score with a passion, and Arnold pisses all over Serra. How about that...
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I'm aware of what it is, cheers. But I'm sure you understand that we can only talk about Romer's work on Bond in relation to the previous composers and his own previous work. They go hand in hand until we actually hear what he comes up with.
But for balance, I've been listening to a lot of Romer's work lately. It's not all to my taste, but it's certainly evocative.
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Another slow, meandering, dreary effort that goes nowhere, and leaves me with dread at the thought of what the Bond 25 score will be like. Hasn't this Romer guy done ANYTHING decent yet? Every time someone posts a new Romer clip, I hope this will be the one that proves he is the man capable of equalling Arnold. And every time, sadly I'm proved wrong.
Had it been something more like this, I think we'd all be getting excited -
Meanwhile I’m still waiting for a Bond score...
I am one of the biggest Arnold fans here (paling in comparison with maybe @Murdock for that title ;) ) but I'm avoiding directly comparing it with any piece of Bond music and taking it as a piece of Romer music in order to provide some context. In that regard, it works. There is a sizeable chunk of his discography that fits the description you gave, but I actually think that one isn't too bad at all. I quite like it. So yeah, I'm trying to remain positive is all.
That Hurwitz score is very good, for sure. One of my favourites from last year and I did hope they would tap him for Bond 25 at the time.
But, to be fair to Romer, he has never scored a film like that. Few, if any, of the projects he has provided music for would have been any better with that style of music. On balance, I would say that is both a reason to be concerned and a reason to feel that he may surprise us when he actually gets a shot at it. I don't want to completely write him off, because at the end of the day, he is the composer we have.
Independence Day and Stargate.
And during his tenure he did Godzilla and Wing Commander.